What Ek means
Two similar-sounding words that outsiders regularly merge: ekʼ is a star, eʼek is black. Ek Balam, the ruin in Yucatan, is usually read as black jaguar rather than star jaguar.
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Ek
“star; black”
Say it
EHK
Classical form
Yucatec Maya ekʼ (star) and eʼek (black)
Names built from Ek
1 name on this site uses this word.
Maya words you meet in Mexico
Yucatec Maya words that survive in place names, food and given names: cenote the sinkhole, balam the jaguar, nicte the flower, kin the sun, ha water, pib the earth oven.
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